Book Marketing Methods That Don’t Work
It’s no wonder that the Internet is bursting with promotional services, marketing companies, publicity gurus, and book promotion self-help advice from authors who’ve been there, done that.
SFWA Blog
Guest Post: Checking the Gender Balance
What is happening here is the creation of what we might call “his-story”. If the only books talked about, the only books that find their way into the historical record, are books by men, then anyone looking back over time will get the impression that the only important people involved in the field, perhaps the only people involved in the field, were men.
Key Conditions for Suspense Part 26:
Patterns for Resolution Elements 1-3
Readers want their tension to build to a pitch. Then they want to feel a release. The resolution phase is where you deliver that delicious release.
Quick Updates for 2011-06-10
Member News for Robert J. Sawyer, Leah Cypess, and Anna D. Allen.
Little Brother’s World
by T. Jackson King Little Brother had survived as an orphan on the colony planet Mother’s World by following two rules. First you grabbed anything edible before the valuables. Second, you never talked to the garbage. But then the garbage–a Pube girl named Sally–talked to him. Before he knew it, he was running to escape the attention of The Church of […]
Quick Updates for 2011-06-08
@mslaurel1 The reading with @nancykress is open to the public. It's at the Kennedy School at 7pm http://is.gd/ktp46Y # RT @lightspeedmag: ATTN Writers: Lightspeed's submission queue is currently EMPTY & we're in need of good material. http://goo.gl/mwzAV # SFWA member Mary Robinette Kowal will be reading at Uncle Hugo’s SF Books in Minneapolis on Sunday. […]
Quick Updates for 2011-06-07
Remember: Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang, & Ursula K. Le Guin read at the SFWA NW reading series in Portland. Tues. 7pm http://is.gd/ktp46Y #
Guest Post: The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People
Creativity is a nebulous, murky topic that fascinates me endlessly — how does it work? What habits to creative people do that makes them so successful at creativity?
Clark, Mendelson, and Scott:
New Name for a Fee-Charging Agency
Every time I bemoan Writer Beware’s overpacked file drawers, and wonder whether I should get rid of files for agents and publishers that have gone out of business (or at least consign them to the basement), I’m reminded of why it’s important to keep that old information handy.
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 25 – Patterns for Struggle Elements 5 & 6
The stories that use insight and decision are usually those where the main obstacle is the character’s internal problem. For example, in stories where love and friendship is on the line and the obstacle is the main character’s values, it may be that the hero has to make a decision to place love above something else.
